Dick’s Sporting Goods was the first large retailer to change its gun sales policy, and Walmart quickly followed suit after the latest mass killing of 17 at a Florida high school.
The retailers raised the age restriction for gun and ammunition purchases to 21, up from 18. While Dick’s stopped selling military-style semi-automatic rifles after the massacre in Sandy Hook years ago, it is now removing them from its 35 Field & Stream stores, as well. The sporting goods store never sold bump stocks, but is new policy also ends sales of high-capacity magazines.
Walmart stopped selling AR-15 assault-style weapons in 2015 and did not sell high-capacity magazine or bump stocks, but the retailer promised to remove any non-lethal lookalike toys and guns from its website.
